Knuckleheads of the Week
THE OSU coach Urban Meyer did not take calls on his radio call-in show Thursday. The show’s executive producer, lap dog Skip Mosic, gave a weak excuse about his policy of not allowing questions that already had been answered. What? So the great Urban Meyer is so fragile that he couldn’t answer twice why the Buckeyes melted down in Happy Valley? I would love to know who really made the decision to shut out OSU fans. Coaches are control freaks, so my money’s on Meyer. This week, the coach who is paid to answer softball questions and the complicit radio guy are co-knuckleheads. Grow up, men.
If your kids are like mine, they are too old to knock on doors asking for candy. But they do it anyway. I won’t stop them from acting goofy on Halloween as long as they promise to bring back Almond Joys and Kit Kats.
Baseball is relevant right now with great storylines all over the Cubs-Indians World Series. America's pastime has momentum, but it missed a chance to do something that would have generated even more publicity and good vibes: a day game at Wrigley Field. You know, where they always used to play day games.
Today would’ve been perfect. The product on the field would be better and fans certainly would enjoy sitting in sunshine instead of dressing for a snowball fight. Yeah, yeah, the NFL. If that’s such a concern, start Game 5 at 3 p.m. so it goes head-to-head with only two late-afternoon football games.
If you sleep in Sunday you'll probably missed the Bengals-Redskins kickoff in London. By the time we roll out the fish and chips for lunch, Cincinnati — the "home" team — should be cruising to a 4-4 record with a bye week on tap. Unless Tyler Eifert stubs his toe kicking a soccer ball in a pregame workout.
The first College Football Playoff rankings will be revealed Tuesday night. Nobody wants to finish No. 4. This would be a fine season to go back to the old BCS system (two teams, one title game) just to spare us watching Alabama destroy two proud programs instead of one. I don't care for Nick Saban but I respect the robot. He has built a dynasty.
The Seahawks-Cardinals game last Sunday night was brutal. I did my best to avoid it and was stunned that this pig with no lipstick was on my TV close to midnight. The 6-6 overtime tie ended the only way it could: two kickers missing chip-shot field goals. The look on Pete Carroll's face was a decent reward for watching.
Trending up: Jake Arrieta, Mike McQueary, Jay Ajayi. Not only did Arrieta look good on the mound for the Cubs last week, I'm pretty sure he played the role of Jack McCall in the memorable HBO series "Deadwood." Cubs fans hope things end better for the Cubs than they did for McCall, who was hung in my hometown of Yankton, S.D., for the gutless murder of Wild Bill Hickok. There's even a plaque detailing the event across the street from the parts store my dad once owned.
Trending down: Chief Wahoo, Josh Brown, Michigan State. It was predictable. The Indians make the World Series and their mascot is big news. There is no room for the chief in our PC world, and the baseball commish promises to have a serious discussion about this important issue soon. At least MLB can't resort to extortion like the NCAA did when dealing with the North Dakota Fighting Sioux.
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